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448–11
- President Richard M. Nixon
- Ronald L. Ziegler
July 10, 1973
Conversation No. 448-11
Date: July 10, 1973
Time: 12:50 pm - 1:20 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. April-2012)
Conversation No. 448-11 (cont’d)
The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler
Press briefing July 10, 1973
-Gerald L. Warren
-Republican leaders
-Hugh Scott
-John N. Mitchell
-Warren’s contributions
-Government Accountability Office [GAO] report
-Agriculture
-[Grain sale]
-Precision Valve Corporation
-[Anti-trust action]
-Denials
Watergate
-Expenditures at San Clemente and Key Biscayne
-William J. Brennan, Jr.
-Forthcoming conversation with Ziegler
-Legal purchase contrasted with General Services Administration [GSA]
expenditures
-Arthur F. Sampson
-Possible statement
-Justification
-Release of figures
-House, Office
-Gerald L. Warren’s briefing
-Robert H. Abplanalp
-Ziegler’s meeting with Brennan
-Abplanalp
-Possible conversation and statement
-Ziegler
-Meeting with William L. Safire
-Press briefing July 10, 1973 by Warren
-Attitude toward Watergate
-Guilt of Mitchell, President
-Law firm
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. April-2012)
Conversation No. 448-11 (cont’d)
-Ervin committee hearings
-Samuel Dash
-Mitchell’s testimony
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Mitchell’s schedule
-Magruder
-G[eorge] Gordon Liddy
-Meetings
-Meetings with White House
-DeVan L. Shumway
-John W. Dean, III
-Role
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman
-March 22, 1973 meeting with the President
-Executive privilege
-President’s knowledge of break-in
-Funds for defendants
-White House attitude
-Committee to Re-Elect the President [CRP] attitude
-Charles W. Colson
-Magruder’s Grand Jury testimony
-Mitchell’s knowledge
-Perjury
-Dean’s role
-CRP
-Age of employees
-Dean
-Legal ethics
-Personal responsibility
-Ervin committee testimony
-Mitchell’s response
-Magruder
-John J. (“Jack”) Caulfield
-Mitchell
-Dash’s questioning
-Maurice H. Stans’s testimony
-Mitchell
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. April-2012)
Conversation No. 448-11 (cont’d)
-Grand Jury testimony in Robert L. Vesco case
-U.S. attorney
-Martha (Beall) Mitchell
-Ervin Committee testimony
-Witness schedule
-Herbert W. Kalmbach
-Mitchell
-Magruder
-Perjury
-Mitchell
-President previous meeting with Alexander M. Haig
-Henry A. Kissinger’s dinner July 9, 1973
-Frank F. Manckiewicz, Thomas W. Braden, Stewart J. O. Alsop
-Democrat’s plans and goals
-Possible forthcoming allegations
-Political contributions
-“Dirty tricks”
-Vietnam War, domestic turmoil
-Kissinger
-Popular interest
-President’s opponents
-Mankiewicz, Braden, Rowland Evans
-White House response
-Ervin Committee, Archibald Cox
-Press release
National economy
-President’s program
-Congressional relations
-George P. Shultz’s views compared to Bryce N. Harlow’s views
-Watergate
-Walters
-Joint Session
-Recess
-Possible reaction
-Export controls
-Phase III
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. April-2012)
Conversation No. 448-11 (cont’d)
-Timing
-President’s reception
-Complexity
-Timing
-President’s reception
-Watergate
-President’s possible meeting with Committee Chairman
-Cabinet Room, East Room
Ziegler’s schedule
-Safire
Watergate
-Ziegler’s forthcoming conversation with Safire
-White House mindset
-Congress
Ziegler left at 1:20 pm.
Date: July 10, 1973
Time: 12:50 pm - 1:20 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
-5-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. April-2012)
Conversation No. 448-11 (cont’d)
The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler
Press briefing July 10, 1973
-Gerald L. Warren
-Republican leaders
-Hugh Scott
-John N. Mitchell
-Warren’s contributions
-Government Accountability Office [GAO] report
-Agriculture
-[Grain sale]
-Precision Valve Corporation
-[Anti-trust action]
-Denials
Watergate
-Expenditures at San Clemente and Key Biscayne
-William J. Brennan, Jr.
-Forthcoming conversation with Ziegler
-Legal purchase contrasted with General Services Administration [GSA]
expenditures
-Arthur F. Sampson
-Possible statement
-Justification
-Release of figures
-House, Office
-Gerald L. Warren’s briefing
-Robert H. Abplanalp
-Ziegler’s meeting with Brennan
-Abplanalp
-Possible conversation and statement
-Ziegler
-Meeting with William L. Safire
-Press briefing July 10, 1973 by Warren
-Attitude toward Watergate
-Guilt of Mitchell, President
-Law firm
-6-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. April-2012)
Conversation No. 448-11 (cont’d)
-Ervin committee hearings
-Samuel Dash
-Mitchell’s testimony
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Mitchell’s schedule
-Magruder
-G[eorge] Gordon Liddy
-Meetings
-Meetings with White House
-DeVan L. Shumway
-John W. Dean, III
-Role
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman
-March 22, 1973 meeting with the President
-Executive privilege
-President’s knowledge of break-in
-Funds for defendants
-White House attitude
-Committee to Re-Elect the President [CRP] attitude
-Charles W. Colson
-Magruder’s Grand Jury testimony
-Mitchell’s knowledge
-Perjury
-Dean’s role
-CRP
-Age of employees
-Dean
-Legal ethics
-Personal responsibility
-Ervin committee testimony
-Mitchell’s response
-Magruder
-John J. (“Jack”) Caulfield
-Mitchell
-Dash’s questioning
-Maurice H. Stans’s testimony
-Mitchell
-7-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. April-2012)
Conversation No. 448-11 (cont’d)
-Grand Jury testimony in Robert L. Vesco case
-U.S. attorney
-Martha (Beall) Mitchell
-Ervin Committee testimony
-Witness schedule
-Herbert W. Kalmbach
-Mitchell
-Magruder
-Perjury
-Mitchell
-President previous meeting with Alexander M. Haig
-Henry A. Kissinger’s dinner July 9, 1973
-Frank F. Manckiewicz, Thomas W. Braden, Stewart J. O. Alsop
-Democrat’s plans and goals
-Possible forthcoming allegations
-Political contributions
-“Dirty tricks”
-Vietnam War, domestic turmoil
-Kissinger
-Popular interest
-President’s opponents
-Mankiewicz, Braden, Rowland Evans
-White House response
-Ervin Committee, Archibald Cox
-Press release
National economy
-President’s program
-Congressional relations
-George P. Shultz’s views compared to Bryce N. Harlow’s views
-Watergate
-Walters
-Joint Session
-Recess
-Possible reaction
-Export controls
-Phase III
-8-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. April-2012)
Conversation No. 448-11 (cont’d)
-Timing
-President’s reception
-Complexity
-Timing
-President’s reception
-Watergate
-President’s possible meeting with Committee Chairman
-Cabinet Room, East Room
Ziegler’s schedule
-Safire
Watergate
-Ziegler’s forthcoming conversation with Safire
-White House mindset
-Congress
Ziegler left at 1:20 pm.